Separable hat-fastener.



UNITED STATES Patented February 14, 1905.

PATENT EEICE.

WILLIAM W. MCNAUGHTON, OF NEV ARK, NEW JERSEY.

SEPAARABLE HAT-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 782,684, dated February 14,4905. Application filed July 14, 1904. Serial No. 216,595.

T0 a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM W. MCNAUGH- TON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Separable Hat-Fasteners; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to numerals ofreference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The objects of this invention are to fasten a hat, and particularly a straw hat for mens wear, more securely upon the head and with greater firmness and safety, to provide a device that can be readily applied to and detached from a hat, and to obtain other advantages and results, some of which may be referred to hereinafter in connection with the description of the working parts.

The invention consists in the improved separable fastener for hats and in the arrange- -ments and combinations of parts of the same,

all substantially as will be hereinafter set forth, and finally embraced in the clauses of the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the figures, Figure 1 is a vertical section of a hat to which my invention has been applied. Fig. 2 is a detail View of a portion of a hat showing the fastener in its fastening' position on the hat;

. and Fig. 3 is a detail plan of the device detached from the hat. l

In said drawings, 5 indicates the hat, and 6 the sweat-band thereof, which latter is sewed to the body of the hat at the brim thereof by stitching 141 in the usual manner.

7 indicates my improved separable-fastener, one applied to each of the opposite 'sides of the hat. Said fasteners each comprise a plate 8, which is slotted and perforated to receive certain of the operating parts, as hereinafter described, the said plate being fiat to lie up against the under side of the brim of the hat. In the perforations of said plate is arranged a wire keeper 9, which is bent or doubled to form a loop 10 at one end and'pro- Vides parallel extensions 11, which lie in the perforations of the plate 8, so as to hold the two said parts in permanent relation, the opposite ends of the said bent wire being hooked, as at12, to enter int-0 engagement with loops 13, adapted to be inserted between the sweatband and the body of the hat and be held in position by the line of stitching 141, by means of Czvhich the sweat-band is applied to the said bo y.

Between the extensions 11 of the keeper 9 the plate 8 is slotted to receive the strap-like 'spring 14, having at its extremity a crosshead 15, adapted to engage the side of the head of the` wearer, the said spring 14 being preferably 'angularly bent, the lower extensions being normally inclinedinward, as shown in Fig. 1, so as to press with greater firmness against the head. Said bent spring 14 at its upper part is inserted through the slots in the Y plate 8, so as to be securely fastened thereto, the lower part or end having the cross-.head

extending downward from the plane of saidy plate, so as to press against the side of the head, and thus hold the hat on said head with greater firmness and security. To the loopl 10 is attached an elastic band 16, which is preferably ofrubber, and to this in turn is fastened a hook 17, adapted to engage the edge of the brim, as shown in Fig. 1. Thus the fastener 7 is secured between the sweat-band .and the edge of the brim under considerable tension, due to the stretching of the elastic band, and because of the elasticity ofthe said band the fastener may be attached with equal security and firmness to hats with brims of various widths.

By simply unhooking the fastener at 17 and 12 the saine can be withdrawn with the greatest ease, and, if desired, the loops 13 may be likewise withdrawn; but ordinarily the loops are allowed to'remain in place after they are once inserted, the same projecting but slightly, if any, below the lower edge of the sweatband. In the drawings vthe projection is increased relatively for the purposes of yillustration.

Under some conditions I may dispense with IOO the wire keeper 9 as a separate piece and embody the parts thereof integrally in connection with the plate S, the parts being' stamped out by dies from one piece of metal.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new isw l. rPhe improved hat-fastening device herein described comprisinga plate having at one end a hook and at the opposite end a hook adapted to engage a corresponding loop at or near the sweat-band of the hat` a spring fastened to said plate and adapted to engage the head of the wearer to hold the hat firmly thereto, and an elastic band in connection with said plate at one end and at the other end with the first said hook, substantially as set forth.

2. The improved separable hat-fastener in which is combined a spring adapted to engage the head of the wearer, a hook adapted to engage a cooperating loop at the inner edge of the brim, a hook adapted to engage the outer edge of the brim of the hat and an elastic connection whereby the two said hooks may be attached to brims of different widths, substantially as set forth.

3. The hat-fastener herein described, comprising a plate, a spring attached thereto and extending away therefrom and at its projecting .end having a cross-head to engage the head of the wearer, said plate having a loop at one end and a hook at the opposite end, a rubber band in said loop and a hook carried by said band and adapted to engage the edge of the hat, substantially as set forth.

4. The hat-fastener herein described, comprising a perforated plate, a wire keeper arranged thereon and bent to form a loop and hooks, a spring to engage the head, projecting from said plate, a rubber band and a hook in connection with said band and held by said band in connection with said keeper, substantially as set forth.

5. In combination with a hat, having a brim and sweat-band, a loop inserted between the sweat-band of the hat and the body thereof, and a fastener at one end attached to said loop and having a spring projecting' downward to engage the head and at the opposite end at- VILLIAM W, MONAUGHTON.

Witnesses:

CHARLES H. PELL, RUSSELL M. EVERETT. 

